EP0405810A2 - Isolat aus Bacillus thuringiensis, das gegen Lepidoptera-Schädlinge aktiv ist, und Gene, die für die neuen lepidoptera-aktiven Toxine kodieren - Google Patents

Isolat aus Bacillus thuringiensis, das gegen Lepidoptera-Schädlinge aktiv ist, und Gene, die für die neuen lepidoptera-aktiven Toxine kodieren Download PDF

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EP0405810A2
EP0405810A2 EP90306594A EP90306594A EP0405810A2 EP 0405810 A2 EP0405810 A2 EP 0405810A2 EP 90306594 A EP90306594 A EP 90306594A EP 90306594 A EP90306594 A EP 90306594A EP 0405810 A2 EP0405810 A2 EP 0405810A2
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  • Bacillus thuringiensis produces a proteinaceous parasporal body or crystal which is toxic upon ingestion by a susceptible insect host.
  • B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-1 produces a crystal inclusion consisting of a biotoxin called a delta toxin which is toxic to the larvae of a number of lepidopteran insects. The cloning, sequencing, and expression of this B.t.
  • the subject invention concerns a novel Bacillus thuringiensis isolate designated B.t. PS81 which has activity against all lepidopteran pests tested.
  • novel toxin genes which express toxins toxic to lepidopteran insects. These toxin genes can be transferred to suitable hosts via a plasmid vector.
  • the invention comprises the novel B.t. isolate denoted B.t. PS81, mutants thereof, and novel ⁇ -endotoxin genes derived from this B.t. isolate which encode proteins which are active against lepidopteran pests.
  • novel toxin genes of the subject invention were obtained from a novel lepidopteran-active B. thuringiensis ( B.t. ) isolate designated PS81 1.
  • Colony morphology Large colony, dull surface, typical B.t. Vegetative cell morphology -- typical B.t. Flagellar serotype -- 7, aizawai.
  • Intracellular inclusions sporulating cells produce a bipyramidal crystal. Plasmid preparations--agarose gel electrophoresis of plasmid preparations distinguishing B.t. PS811 from B.t. HD-1. See Figure 1. Alkali-soluble proteins -- SDS-PAGE analysis shows a protein band at ca . 130,000 daltons. Unique toxins -- four unique toxins have been identified in B.t. PS811. Activity -- B.t. PS811 kills all Lepidoptera tested.
  • dilutions are prepared of a spore and crystal pellet, mixed with USDA Insect Diet (Technical Bulletin 1528, U.S. Department of Agriculture), and poured into small plastic trays. Larvae are placed on the diet mixture and held at 25 C (late 2nd instar Diamondback Moth larvae, early 2nd instar Beet Armyworm larvae, 4th instar Western Spruce Budworm larvae). Mortality is recorded after six days.
  • B. thuringiensis PS81 NRRL B-18484, and mutants thereof can be cultured using standard known media and fermentation techniques. Upon completion of the fermentation cycle, the bacteria can be harvested by first separating the B.t. spores and crystals from the fermentation broth by means well known in the art. The recovered B.t. spores and crystals can be formulated into a wettable powder, a liquid concentrate, granules or other formulations by the addition of surfactants, dispersants, inert carriers and other components to facilitate handling and application for particular target pests. The formulation and application procedures are all well known in the art and are used with commercial strains of B. thuringiensis (HD-1) active against Lepidoptera , e.g., caterpillars. B.t. PS811 and mutants thereof, can be used to control lepidopteran pests.
  • HD-1 active against Lepidoptera
  • B.t. PS811 and mutants thereof can be used to control lepidopteran pests.
  • the toxin genes of the subject invention can be introduced into a wide variety of microbial hosts. Expression of the toxin gene results, directly or indirectly, in the intracellular production and maintenance of the pesticide. With suitable hosts, e.g., Pseudomonas , the microbes can be applied to the situs of lepidopteran insects where they will proliferate and be ingested by the insects. The result is a control of the unwanted insects. Alternatively, the microbe hosting the toxin gene can be treated under conditions that prolong the activity of the toxin produced in the cell. The treated cell then can be applied to the environment of target pest(s). The resulting product retains the toxicity of the B.t. toxin.
  • suitable hosts e.g., Pseudomonas
  • the microbes can be applied to the situs of lepidopteran insects where they will proliferate and be ingested by the insects. The result is a control of the unwanted insects.
  • the microbe hosting the toxin gene can
  • microorganism hosts are selected which are known to occupy the "phytosphere" (phylloplane, phyllosphere, rhizosphere, and/or rhizoplane) of one or more crops of interest. These microorganisms are selected so as to be capable of successfully competing in the particular environment (crop and other insect habitats) with the wild-type microorganisms, provide for stable maintenance and expression of the gene expressing the polypeptide pesticide, and, desirably, provide for improved protection of the pesticide from environmental degradation and inactivation.
  • phytosphere phytosphere
  • rhizosphere rhizosphere
  • rhizoplane rhizoplane
  • microorganisms are known to inhabit the phylloplane (the surface of the plant leaves) and/or the rhizosphere (the soil surrounding plant roots) of a wide variety of important crops. These microorganisms include bacteria, algae, and fungi.
  • microorganisms such as bacteria, e.g., genera Bacillus , Pseudomonas , Erwinia , Serratia , Klebsiella , Xanthomonas , Streptomyces , Rhizobium , Rhodopseudomonas , Methylophilius , Agrobacterium , Acetobacter , Lactobacillus , Arth- robacter , Azotobacter , Leuconostoc , and Alcaligenes ; fungi, particularly yeast, e.g., genera Saccharomyces , Cryptococcus , Kluyveromyces , Sporobolomyces , Rhodotorula , and Aureobasidium .
  • bacteria e.g., genera Bacillus , Pseudomonas , Erwinia , Serratia , Klebsiella , Xanthomonas ,
  • phytosphere bacterial species as Pseudomonas syringae .
  • Pseudomonas fluorescens Serratia marcescens , Acetobacter xylinum , Agrobacterium tumefaciens , Rhodopseudomonas spheroides , Xanthomonas campestris , Rhizobium melioti , Alcaligenes entrophus , and Azotobacter vinlandii
  • phytosphere yeast species such as Rhodotorula rubra , R. glutinis , R. marina , R.
  • a wide variety of ways are available for introducing a B.t. gene expressing a toxin into the microorganism host under conditions which allow for stable maintenance and expression of the gene.
  • the transcriptional initiation signals will. include a promoter and a transcriptional initiation start site.
  • a temperature sensitive regulatory region may be employed, where the organisms may be grown up in the laboratory without expression of a toxin, but upon release into the environment, expression would begin.
  • Other techniques may employ a specific nutrient medium in the laboratory, which inhibits the expression of the toxin, where the nutrient medium in the environment would allow for expression of the toxin.
  • a ribosomal binding site and an initiation codon will be present.
  • RNA sequences which enhance the stability of the messenger RNA.
  • the transcriptional and translational termination region will involve stop codon(s), a terminator region, and optionally, a polyadenylation signal.
  • a hydrophobic "leader" sequence may be employed at the amino terminus of the translated polypeptide sequence in order to promote secretion of the protein across the inner membrane.
  • the construct will involve the transcriptional regulatory region, if any, and the promoter, where the regulatory region may be either 5 or 3 of the promoter, the ribosomal binding site, the initiation codon, the structural gene having an open reading frame in phase with the initiation codon, the stop codon(s), the polyadenylation signal sequence, if any, and the terminator region.
  • This sequence as a double strand may be used by itself for transformation of a microorganism host, but will usually be included with a DNA sequence involving a marker, where the second DNA sequence may be joined to the toxin expression construct during introduction of the DNA into the host.
  • a marker is intended a structural gene which provides for selection of those hosts which have been modified or transformed.
  • the marker will normally provide for selective advantage, for example, providing for biocide resistance, e.g., resistance to antibiotics or heavy metals; complementation, so as to provide prototropy to an auxotrophic host, or the like.
  • complementation is employed, so that the modified host may not only be selected, but may also be competitive in the field.
  • One or more markers may be employed in the development of the constructs, as well as for modifying the host.
  • the organisms may be further modified by providing for a competitive advantage against.other wild-type microorganisms in the field.
  • genes expressing metal chelating agents may be introduced into the host along with the structural gene expressing the toxin.
  • the enhanced expression of a siderophore may provide for a competitive advantage for the toxin-producing host, so that it may effectively compete with the wild-type microorganisms and stably occupy a niche in the environment.
  • the construct will also include a sequence of at least 50 basepairs (bp), preferably at least about 100 bp, and usually not more than about 1000 bp of a sequence homologous with a sequence in the host.
  • bp basepairs
  • the toxin gene will be in close proximity to the gene providing for complementation as well as the gene providing for the competitive advantage. Therefore, in the event that a toxin gene is lost, the resulting organism will be likely to also lose the complementing gene and/or the gene providing for the competitive advantage, so that it will be unable to compete in the environment with the gene retaining the intact construct.
  • transcriptional regulatory regions are available from a wide variety of microorganism hosts, such as bacteria, bacteriophage, cyanobacteria, algae, fungi, and the like.
  • Various transcriptional regulatory regions include the regions associated with the trp gene, lac gene, gal gene, the lambda left and right promoters, the Tac promoter, the naturally-occurring promoters associated with the toxin gene, where functional in the host. See for example, U.S. Patent Nos. 4,332,898, 4,342,832 and 4,356,270.
  • the termination region may be the termination region normally associated with the transcriptional initiation region or a different transcriptional initiation region, so long as the two regions are compatible and functional in the host.
  • a plasmid which has a replication system which is functional in the host.
  • the replication system may be derived from the chromosome, an episomal element normally present in the host or a different host, or a replication system from a virus which is stable in the host.
  • a large number of plasmids are available, such as pBR322, pACYC184, RSF1010, pRO1614, and the like. See for example, Olson et al., (1982) J. Bacteriol. 150:6069, and Bagdasarian et al., (1981) Gene 16:237, and U.S. Patent Nos. 4,356,270, 4,362,817, and 4,371,625.
  • the B.t. gene can be introduced between the transcriptional and translational initiation region and the transcriptional and translational termination region, so as to be under the regulatory control of the initiation region.
  • This construct will be included in a plasmid, which will include at least one replication system, but may include more than one, where one replication system is employed for cloning during the development of the plasmid and the second replication system is necessary for functioning in the ultimate host.
  • one or more markers may be present, which have been described previously.
  • the plasmid will desirably include a sequence homologous with the host genome.
  • the transformants can be isolated in accordance with conventional ways, usually employing a selection technique, which allows for selection of the desired organism as against unmodified organisms or transferring organisms, when present. The transformants then can be tested for pesticidal activity.
  • Suitable host cells where the pesticide-containing cells will be treated to prolong the activity of the toxin in the cell.when the then treated cell is applied to the environment of target pest(s), may include either prokaryotes or eukaryotes, normally being limited to those cells which do not produce substances toxic to higher organisms, such as mammals. However, organisms which produce substances toxic to higher organisms could be used, where the toxin is unstable or the level of application sufficiently low as to avoid any possibility of toxicity to a mammalian host. As hosts, of particular interest will be the prokaryotes and the lower eukaryotes, such as fungi.
  • Illustrative prokaryotes both Gram-negative and -positive, include Enterobacteriaceae, such as Escherichia , Erwinia , Shigella , Salmonella , and Proteus ; Bacillaceae; Rhizobiceae, such as Rhizobium ; Spirillaceae, such as photobacterium, Zymomonas , Serratia , Aeromonas , Vibrio , Desulfovibrio , Spirillum ; Lactobacillaceae; Pseudomonadaceae, such as Pseudomonas and Acetobacter ; Azotobacteraceae, Actinomycetales, and Nitrobacteraceae.
  • Enterobacteriaceae such as Escherichia , Erwinia , Shigella , Salmonella , and Proteus
  • Bacillaceae Rhizobiceae, such as Rhizobium
  • Spirillaceae such as photo
  • fungi such as Phycomycetes and Ascomycetes, which includes yeast, such as Saccharomyces and Schizosac- charomyces ; and Basidiomycetes yeast, such as Rhodotorula , Aureobasidium , Sporobolomyces , and the like.
  • Characteristics of particular interest in selecting a host cell for purposes of production include ease of introducing the B.t. gene into the host, availability of expression systems, efficiency of expression, stability of the pesticide in the host, and the presence of auxiliary genetic capabilities.
  • Characteristics of interest for use as a pesticide microcapsule include protective qualities for the pesticide, such as thick cell walls, pigmentation, and intracellular packaging or formation of inclusion bodies; leaf affinity; lack of mammalian toxicity; attractiveness to pests for ingestion; ease of killing and fixing without damage to the toxin; and the like. Other considerations include ease of formulation and handling, economics, storage stability, and the like.
  • Host organisms of particular interest include yeast, such as Rhodotorula sp., Aureobasidium sp., Saccharomyces sp., and Sporobolomyces sp.; phylloplane organisms such as Pseudomonas sp., Erwinia sp. and Flavobacterium sp.; or such other organisms as Escherichia , Lactobacillus sp., Bacillus sp., Streptomyces sp., and the like.
  • yeast such as Rhodotorula sp., Aureobasidium sp., Saccharomyces sp., and Sporobolomyces sp.
  • phylloplane organisms such as Pseudomonas sp., Erwinia sp. and Flavobacterium sp.
  • Escherichia Lactobacillus sp.
  • Specific organisms include Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Pseudomonas fluorescens , Saccharomyces cerevisiae , Bacillus thuringiensis , Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis , Streptomyces lividans and the like.
  • the cell will usually be intact and be substantially in the proliferative form when treated, rather than in a spore form, although in some instances spores may be employed.
  • Treatment of the microbial cell can be by chemical or physical means, or by a combination of chemical and/or physical means, so long as the technique does not deleteriously affect the properties of the toxin, nor diminish the cellular capability in protecting the toxin.
  • chemical reagents are halogenating agents, particularly halogens of atomic no. 17-80. More particularly, iodine can be used under mild conditions and for sufficient time to achieve the desired results.
  • aldehydes such as formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde
  • antiinfectives such as zephiran chloride and cetylpyridinium chloride
  • alcohols such as isopropyl and ethanol
  • various histologic fixatives such as Lugol iodine, Bouin's fixative, and Helly's fixative (See: Humason, Gretchen L., Animal Tissue Techniques, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1967); or a combination of physical (heat) and chemical agents that preserve and prolong the activity of the toxin produced in the cell when the cell is administered to the host animal.
  • physical means are short wavelength radiation such as gamma-radiation and X-radiation, freezing, UV irradiation, lyophilization, and the like.
  • the cells generally will have enhanced structural stability which will enhance resistance to environmental conditions.
  • the method of inactivation should be selected so as not to inhibit processing of the proform to the mature form of the pesticide by the target pest pathogen.
  • formaldehyde will crosslink proteins and could inhibit processing of the proform of a polypeptide pesticide.
  • the method of inactivation or killing retains at least a substantial portion of the bio-availability or bioactivity of the toxin.
  • the cellular host containing the B.t. insecticidal gene may be grown in any convenient nutrient medium, where the DNA construct provides a selective advantage, providing for a selective medium so that substantially all or all of the cells retain the B.t. gene. These cells may then be harvested in accordance with conventional ways. Alternatively, the cells can be treated prior to harvesting.
  • the B.t. cells may be formulated in a variety of ways. They may be employed as wettable powders, granules or dusts, by mixing with various inert materials, such as inorganic minerals (phyllosilicates, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and the like) or botanical materials (powdered corncobs, rice hulls, walnut shells, and the like).
  • the formulations may include spreader-sticker adjuvants, stabilizing agents, other pesticidal additives, or surfactants.
  • Liquid formulations may be aqueous-based or non-aqueous and employed as foams, gels, suspensions, emulsifiable concentrates, or the like.
  • the ingredients may include rheological agents, surfactants, emulsifiers, dispersants, or polymers.
  • the pesticidal concentration will vary widely depending upon the nature of the particular formulation, particularly whether it is a concentrate or to be used directly.
  • the pesticide will be present in at least 1% by weight and may be 100% by weight.
  • the dry formulations will have from about 1-95% by weight of the pesticide while the liquid formulations will generally be from about 1-60% by weight of the solids in the liquid phase.
  • the formulations will generally have from about 10 2 to about 10 4 cells/mg. These formulations will be administered at about 50 mg (liquid or dry) to 1 kg or more per hectare.
  • the formulations can be applied to the environment of the lepidopteran pest(s), e.g., plants, soil or water, by spraying, dusting, sprinkling, or the like.
  • Mutants of PS811 can be made by procedures well known in the art.
  • an asporogenous mutant can be obtained through ethylmethane sulfonate (EMS) mutagenesis of PS81 1.
  • EMS ethylmethane sulfonate
  • the mutants can be made using ultraviolet light and nitrosoguanidine by procedures well known in the art.
  • Lysis minus strains can be identified by screening asporogenous mutants in shake flask media and selecting those mutants that are still intact and contain toxin crystals at the end of the fermentation. Lysis minus strains are suitable for a cell fixation process that will yield a protected, encapsulated toxin protein.
  • a phage resistant variant of said asporogenous mutant an aliquot of the phage lysate is spread onto nutrient agar and allowed to dry. An aliquot of the phage sensitive bacterial strain is then plated directly over the dried lysate and allowed to dry. The plates are incubated at 30° C. The plates are incubated for 2 days and, at that time, numerous colonies could be seen growing on the agar. Some of these colonies are picked and subcultured onto nutrient agar plates. These apparent resistant cultures are tested for resistance by cross streaking with the phage lysate. A line of the phage lysate is streaked on the plate and allowed to dry.
  • the presumptive resistant cultures are then streaked across the phage line. Resistant bacterial cultures show no lysis anywhere in the streak across the phage line after overnight incubation at 30 C.
  • the resistance to phage is then reconfirmed by plating a lawn of the resistant culture onto a nutrient agar plate.
  • the sensitive strain is also plated in the same manner to serve as the positive control. After drying, a drop of the phage lysate is plated in the center of the plate and allowed to dry. Resistant cultures showed no lysis in the area where the phage lysate has been placed after incubation at 30 C for 24 hours.
  • a subculture of B.t. PS81 or mutants thereof, can be used to inoculate the following medium, a peptone, glucose, salts medium.
  • the salts solution and CaC1 2 solution are filter-sterilized and added to the autoclaved and cooked broth at the time of inoculation. Flasks are incubated at 30' C on a rotary shaker at 200 rpm for 64 hr.
  • the B.t. spores and/or crystals, obtained in the above fermentation can be isolated by procedures well known in the art.
  • a frequently-used procedure is to subject the harvested fermentation broth to separation techniques, e.g., centrifugation.
  • the isolated Eco RI fragments were ligated to LAMBDA ZAPTM Eco RI arms (Stratagene Cloning Systems, La Jolla, CA) and packaged using Gigapak GOLDTM (Stratagene) extracts.
  • the packaged recombinant phage were plated with E. coli strain BB4 (Stratagene) to give high plaque density.
  • the plaques were screened by standard nucleic acid hybridization procedures with radiolabeled probe .
  • the plaques that hybridized were purified and re-screened at a lower plaque density.
  • the resulting purified phage were grown with R408 M13 helper phage (Stratagene) and the recombinant BlueScriptTM (Stratagene) plasmid was automatically excised and packaged.
  • the "phagemid” was re-infected in XL1-Blue E. coli cells (Stratagene) as part of the automatic excision process.
  • the infected XL1-Blue cells were screened for ampicillin resistance and the resulting colonies were analyzed by a standard rapid plasmid purification procedure to identify the desired plasmids.
  • the plasmids designated pM2,31-4 and pM2,31-1, contain approximately 1.95 Kb and 1.6 Kb Eco RI inserts, respectively.
  • the DNA sequence of both inserts was determined using Stratagene's T7 and T3 oligonucleotide primers plus a set of existing internal B.t. endotoxin gene oligonucleotide primers.
  • the 42-mer oligonucleotide constructed to the sequence of the insert in pM2,31-4 was GGATACCGGTGACCCAT-TAACATTCCAATCTTTTAGTTACGC; it was used to isolate a toxin gene sequence called 81
  • The. 40-mer oligonucleotide constructed to the sequence of the insert in pM2,31-1 was GAAGTTTATGGCCTCTTTCTG-TAGAAAATCAAATTGGACC; it was used to isolate a toxin gene sequence called 81
  • DNA was isolated by standard procedures. Preparative amounts of DNA were digested with Sal I (to release the inserted DNA from lambda arms) and separated by electrophoresis on a 0.6% agarose-TAE gel. The large fragments, electroeluted and concentrated as described above, were ligated to Sal I-digested and dephosphorylated pUC19 (NEB). The ligation mix was introduced by transformation into DH5(a) competent E.
  • Plasmid pM3,122-1 contains a 15 Kb Sau 3A fragment isolated using the 811A oligonucleotide probe.
  • Plasmid pM4,59-1 contains an 18 Kb Sau 3A fragment isolated using the 811B oligonucleotide probe.
  • Plasmid pM3,122-1 was digested with several restriction enzymes and Southern blotted. The blot was probed with the [ 32 P] radiolabeled 81 IA specific oligonucleotide probe, as well as the labeled oligonucleotide sequencing primers made to known B.t.k. toxin genes. The resulting autoradiogram showed that two toxin genes were present in tandem on this cloned Sau 3A fragment. Plasmid pM3,122-1 had a 4.0 Kb Nde I fragment that hybridized with oligonucleotide probes made to known B.t.k. genes.
  • the 4.0 Kb Nde I fragment was isolated and cloned in pUC19, yielding plasmid pMYC392.
  • a toxin gene was isolated by digesting pM3,122-1 with Hin dlll, with resulting deletion of most of the 811A2 toxin gene. The fragment was recircularized to form pMYC1603.
  • the 811A toxin gene is unique based on its restriction map and is presently being sequenced.
  • Plasmid pM4,59-1 was digested with several restriction enzymes and Southern blotted. The blot was probed with the [ 32 P] radiolabeled 811B specific oligonucleotide probe, as well as with labeled oligonucleotide sequencing primers made to known B.t.k. toxin genes. The plasmid pM4,59-1 was mapped and found to contain only a partial 811B toxin gene. The full open reading frame (ORF) of a second toxin gene was discovered on the 18 Kb fragment and called 811 B2.
  • ORF full open reading frame
  • B2 toxin gene was cloned separately from the 811B toxin gene by digestion of pM4,59-1 with Nde I and Sma I, filling in the Nde I overhang and ligating the linear fragment back together.
  • the resulting plasmid was called pMYC394.
  • the full ORF of the 811B toxin gene was isolated from another Sau 3A fragment, cloned from the lambda library, on a 7.3 Kb Hin dill fragment in pBluescript (Stratagene). The resulting plasmid is pMYC393.
  • the toxin genes were sequenced by the standard Sanger dideoxy chain termination method using oligonucleotide primers made to the "4.5 Kb class" toxin gene and by "walking" with primers made to the sequences of the new toxin genes. Sequence analysis of the four toxin genes has elucidated unique open reading frames and has deduced unique endotoxin proteins (Tables 1-12). The following table summarizes the size of each ORF in base pairs and the deduced endotoxin molecular weight in daltons.
  • Endotoxin proteins have been expressed in Pseudomonas and/or Bacillus from the toxin genes. SDS-PAGE/Western blot analysis, using polyclonal antibodies directed against the "6.6 Kb" class toxin, verified that each gene encodes an immunoreactive protein of approximately 130,000 daltons.
  • the toxin proteins encoded by the genes of the subject invention expressed in either a Bacillus or Pseudomonas host have activity against all lepidopteran insects tested: Trichoplusia ni , Spodoptera exigua , Plutella xylostella , and Choristoneura occidentalis .
  • restriction enzymes disclosed herein can be purchased from Bethesda Research Laboratories, Gaithersburg, MD, New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA, or Boehringer-Mannheim, Indianapolis, IN. The enzymes are used according to the instructions provided by the supplier.
  • the plasmids containing the B.t. toxin genes can be removed from the transformed host microbes by use of standard well-known procedures.
  • the host microbes can be subjected to cleared lysate isopycnic density gradient procedures, and the like, to recover the desired plasmid.
  • novel genes coding for the novel insecticidal toxins can be inserted into plant cells using the Ti plasmid from Agrobacter tumefaciens . Plant cells can then be caused to regenerate into plants (Zambryski, P., Joos, H., Gentello, C., Leemans, J., Van Montague, M. and Schell, J [1983] Cell 32:1033-1043).
  • a particularly useful vector in this regard is pEND4K (Klee, H.J., Yanofsky, M.F. and Nester, E.W. [1985] Bio/Technology 3:637-642).
  • This plasmid can replicate both in plant cells and in bacteria and has multiple cloning sites for passenger genes.
  • the toxin gene for example, can be inserted into the Bam HI site of pEND4K, propagated in E. coli , and transformed into appropriate plant cells.
  • the novel genes of the invention can be cloned into baculoviruses such as Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcNPV).
  • Plasmids can be constructed that contain the AcNPV genome cloned into a commercial cloning vector such as pUC8.
  • the AcNPV genome is modified so that the coding region of the polyhedrin gene is removed and a unique cloning site for a passenger gene is placed directly behind the polyhedrin promoter.
  • Examples of such vectors are pGP-B6874, described by Pennock et al. (Pennock, G.D., Shoemaker, C. and Miller, L.K. [1984] Mol. Cell. Biol.
  • novel protein toxin of the invention can be modified with Bam HI linkers at appropriate regions both upstream and downstream from the coding region and inserted into the passenger site of one of the AcNPV vectors.
  • nucleotide sequences encoding the novel B.t. toxin genes, and the deduced amino-acid sequences are shown in claims 3 to 6.
  • amino-acid sequence of a protein is determined by the nucleotide sequence of the DNA. Because of the redundancy of the genetic code, i.e. more than one coding nucleotide triplet (codon) can be used for most of the amino-acids used to make proteins, different nucleotide sequences can code for a particular amino-acid.
  • novel B.t. toxins can be prepared via any nucleotide sequence (equivalent to that shown) encoding the same amino-acid sequence; the present invention includes such equivalent nucleotide sequences.
  • proteins of identified structure and function may be constructed by changing the amino-acid sequence, if such changes do not alter the protein secondary structure; see Kaiser, E.T. and Kezdy, F.J. (1984) Science 223:249-255.
  • the present invention includes mutants of the amino-acid sequences depicted herein which have an unaltered protein secondary structure or, if the structure is altered, the mutant has the biological activity retained to some degree.

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